Large scale / mega projects are lengthy complex endeavors that require significant planning by management, engineers and construction personnel to ensure the success of the projec...
We present an improved sweep metaheuristic for discrete event simulation optimization. The sweep algorithm is a tree search similar to beam search. The basic idea is to run a limi...
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Today, many software projects are being developed by collaborating programmers working across multiple locations. Whatever the reason may be, outsourcing, organizational structure...
We report on one organization's experience making process changes in a suite of projects. The changes were motivated by clients’ requests for better time estimates, better ...